Keyword Difficulty Scores for Your Terms
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What is a good score for a newbie to take?
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Dammit then because I picked a keyword that has 4,400 exact local BUT with a competition of 49-50%. Most of the sites in the top ranking are high authority sites like wiki but don't pertain to my keyword / have only 1 page for it.
Lets say my keyword is United States Military. The top sites in the first page don't focus on the exact keyword 'United States Military' but the pages that come up talk about 'US Forces'.
Is United States Military and US Forces the same keyword? They are both the SAME thing in definition but I have a different keyword as opposed to the ones listed on google.
Another example is "Wireless adapter" when I use the keyword "Wireless USB" and they use "Wireless adapter". They are the same thing in content and definition, but, different keyword. Nothing on the first page has the keyword I mention (even wiki) except for one site that mentions it eight times in the 1 page of content they have focused on it.
I also have a .net EMD for my domain as opposed to my 'competition' that dont.
Could I take my competition that includes high authority sites with over thousands of backlinks but have only 1 page of content on what they are talking about and I have 5 pages + soon to be thousands of BL?
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Matthew,
I would go for anything less than 40%. SeoMoz has a good descriptions in the Keyword Analysis Page of what each percentage range means. Maybe this can help you access what you can tackle.
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